Comment on 500,000 households cancel TV licence putting BBC future in jeopardy

• like@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They already sell it to the yanks as Britbox and are reasonably successful at it but the license fee currently covers about four billion quid of their six billion annual operating costs. They don’t have to do Netflix numbers but it’s a lot of subs to sell (assuming that it must remain free to UK viewers and of ads)

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  • kaitco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    As a yank who has perused…and may also have been known to use a VPN to change countries to watch various things…I’ve compared the two and BritBox isn’t really the same. A fair amount of things are available sometimes, but it’s just not fully comparable.

    They should sell the full service to the rest of the world like it’s presented to the locals. I’m sure there’s some Brit expats who might love to have it properly available to them.

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    • like@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You’re right. They hide their shame from curious limeys by geoblocking britbox.com, but a vpn trip to Texas reveals it looks like a load of old shit on offer (Twenty Twenty Six is probably good though)

      So as for they should sell the full service to the rest of the world, I agree. i suppose it’s licensing issues or they’d be doing it already? Much of their programming is not made not in-house but by external production cos

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  • BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The license fee is what the UK user currently pays, if you remove the license fee it won’t remain available to the UK audience for free

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